It's been a few years (seven to be precise) since we heard something new from William Michael Albert Broad, better known to you and I as Billy Idol. He's been around doing other stuff like appearing with Miley Cyrus on her November 2020 album 'Plastic Hearts' duetting on 'Night Crawling'. In 2018 he became a US Citzen and also teamed up with former Generation X bandmate Tony James and former Sex Pistols Steve Jones & Paul Cook to perform as Generation Sex at a free show in LA at The Roxy at the end of October (watch it here!).
On 7th October 2014 he published 'Dancing With Myself', which became a New York Times Bestseller (not quite sure how many you have to sell to make that list).
Ten days after the release the book came the first album of new material since Devil's Playground (2005) and only his third album in over twenty years!
A new four track EP will be called 'The Roadside EP' will be released in September on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records, recently revitalized by his son Dhani. The First song from it, 'Bitter Taste'. was released as a "single" and video yesterday. The track, recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, finds Idol looking back at his near-fatal 1990 motorcycle accident, a crash that almost resulted in him losing a leg and left him unable to walk for nearly a year.
“I think everyone has been feeling more reflective (during the pandemic). So, it seemed quite logical and natural to write something about my motorcycle accident,” Idol said in a statement. “Certainly, the motorcycle accident was the catharsis, the wake-up moment. A little bit of me got left on that roadside. But it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing in the end; it was a wake-up call. Maybe on that roadside I left behind the irreverent youthful Billy and opened the door for a more attentive father and a more sensitive musician”
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